Students should read from the beginning of the novel to the end of Part 1, Chapter 3.
Common Core Objectives
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
Part 1, Chapter 1
Set in Saigon in the mid-1950s, during a time of war and strife, The Quiet American opens with its narrator, Fowler, waiting on the street for a man named Pyle. He determines...
